Chapters 48-50 Summary

Shekure wakes Black and tells him that her father told her in a dream that Black was the murderer. As they talk, she threatens Black and tries to scare him with Hasan's red sword; however, she is also reassured by his love. She still seeks to prove that he is in no way connected to the murders.

Black and Master Osman go to the Sultan's Private Garden again. They look at the three horses drawn for the "contest," but none have the strange nostrils. Master Osman knows that the horse for Enishte's book has come from somewhere deep in the artist's past and asks to see the books in the Treasury to try to figure it out. The Sultan grants Black and Master Osman access to the Inner Treasury with Jezmi Agha, who knows his way around all the books better...